Municipality’s financial support restored by KZN Finance MEC

THE KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Francois Rodgers has reinstated financial support to Umkhanyakude District Municipality following the mending of relations between the two institutions.

- WILLEM PHUNGULA

The relationship between the two had soured, which resulted in the department withdrawing its financial assistance to the municipality due to lack of cooperation by the entity’s management.

The municipality, in the northeast of the province, had been angered by the provincial cabinet’s decision to place it under administration and openly challenged the decision. After a public war and a court battle, the provincial cabinet reversed its decision and removed the administrator Bamba Ndwandwe.